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INDEX 2 · News 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifi eds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 192, NO. 25 DAILY TROJAN
Matt Karatsu | Daily Trojan
Suspect hides on campus
Following a pursuit by the California Highway Patrol Tuesday morning, a male parolee collided with another
vehicle near Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street. He then ran on campus and hid in the Annenberg School
for Communication and Journalism building, according to the Department of Public Safety.
By SARAH CHAN
News Editor
The Panhellenic Council re-leased
a letter Tuesday to oppose
Vice President for Student Affairs
Ainsley Carry’s proposal to in-state
GPA requirements for stu-dents
to participate in Greek re-cruitment.
Carry’s proposal would require
a minimum grade point average
of 2.5 and completion of 12 units
of coursework at USC before stu-dents
are eligible.
The letter, which was ad-dressed
to Carry, president C.L.
Max Nikias, provost Michael
Quick and Associate Vice Provost
for Student Affairs Monique
Allard, was read at an open fo-rum
at Tuesday’s Undergraduate
Student Government Senate
meeting. No senior administra-tors
were in attendance at the
meeting, but the letter was deliv-ered
to the four addressees earli-er
in the day.
The Panhellenic Council stat-ed
in its letter that “a change in
recruitment eligibility would
work against their stated mission
of empowering women and en-abling
them to reach their fullest
potential through academic suc-cess,
campus involvement, com-munity
service and interfrater-nal
collaboration.”
“We are concerned that if new
potential members who want
to join our community are not
able to, they will not be able to
receive the education that our
Panhellenic Council pens
letter against Greek changes
The letter, addressed to
USC administrators, was
read at the USG meeting.
| see LETTER, page 3 |
By JONATHAN HORWITZ
Staff Writer
Hours after news broke on
Tuesday morning that USC men’s
basketball assistant coach Tony
Bland was arrested on charges
that included bribery and fraud,
the University’s athletic depart-ment
took swift strides that cul-minated
in the commencement
of its own internal investigation,
hiring former FBI director Louis
Freeh to handle the case.
Bland and nine others were
brought down by a sting operation
conducted by the FBI.
Freeh is an expert in compli-ance
investigations. He served
as FBI Director from 1993 to
2001, and before that he was an
Assistant U.S. Attorney.
Freeh has experience in NCAA
compliance. His firm, Freeh Group
USC hires
former
FBI
director
Louis Freeh will lead an
internal investigation of
the case involving Bland.
By JULIA POE
Sports Editor
USC placed men’s basketball
associate head coach Tony Bland
on administrative leave follow-ing
his arrest on Monday.
Bland was arrested along with
three fellow NCAA assistant
basketball coaches and six oth-ers
as part of a corruption ring,
according to federal papers that
became public Tuesday. The ring
allegedly involved bribes used to
connect top college basketball
players with financial advisers.
He was released after appear-ing
in court on a $100,000 bond.
He is scheduled to appear in the
U.S. District Court in New York
on Oct. 10.
Bland was put on administra-tive
leave on Tuesday after the
athletic department was “sur-prised
to learn” of both the in-vestigation
and the arrest. The
University has since hired for-mer
FBI director Louis Freeh to
spearhead an internal investiga-tion,
and reached out to both the
NCAA and the FBI to pledge the
school’s “full cooperation” in the
future.
“We were shocked to learn
this morning through news re-ports
about the FBI investiga-tion
and arrests related to NCAA
basketball programs, including
the arrest of USC assistant coach
Tony Bland,” USC athletic direc-tor
Lynn Swann said in a state-ment.
“USC Athletics maintains
the highest standards in athlet-ic
compliance across all of our
programs and does not tolerate
misconduct in any way. We will
cooperate fully with the inves-tigation
and will assist authori-ties
as needed, and if these alle-gations
are true, we will take the
needed action.”
The FBI also charged Lamont
Evans of Oklahoma State, Chuck
Person of Auburn and Emanuel
“Book” Richardson of Arizona.
Besides the four coaches in-volved,
the case charged finan-cial
advisers, sports agents and
Jim Gatto, the Adidas director of
Assistant coach charged in corruption ring
| see BLAND, page 9 | | see FREEH, page 11 |
Steven Kramer | Daily Trojan
Tony Bland was among four
NCAA basketball coaches
arrested in an FBI sting.
Katie Chin | Daily Trojan

INDEX 2 · News 4 · Opinion 5 · Lifestyle 8 · Classifi eds 10 · Sudoku 12 · Sports
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 192, NO. 25 DAILY TROJAN
Matt Karatsu | Daily Trojan
Suspect hides on campus
Following a pursuit by the California Highway Patrol Tuesday morning, a male parolee collided with another
vehicle near Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street. He then ran on campus and hid in the Annenberg School
for Communication and Journalism building, according to the Department of Public Safety.
By SARAH CHAN
News Editor
The Panhellenic Council re-leased
a letter Tuesday to oppose
Vice President for Student Affairs
Ainsley Carry’s proposal to in-state
GPA requirements for stu-dents
to participate in Greek re-cruitment.
Carry’s proposal would require
a minimum grade point average
of 2.5 and completion of 12 units
of coursework at USC before stu-dents
are eligible.
The letter, which was ad-dressed
to Carry, president C.L.
Max Nikias, provost Michael
Quick and Associate Vice Provost
for Student Affairs Monique
Allard, was read at an open fo-rum
at Tuesday’s Undergraduate
Student Government Senate
meeting. No senior administra-tors
were in attendance at the
meeting, but the letter was deliv-ered
to the four addressees earli-er
in the day.
The Panhellenic Council stat-ed
in its letter that “a change in
recruitment eligibility would
work against their stated mission
of empowering women and en-abling
them to reach their fullest
potential through academic suc-cess,
campus involvement, com-munity
service and interfrater-nal
collaboration.”
“We are concerned that if new
potential members who want
to join our community are not
able to, they will not be able to
receive the education that our
Panhellenic Council pens
letter against Greek changes
The letter, addressed to
USC administrators, was
read at the USG meeting.
| see LETTER, page 3 |
By JONATHAN HORWITZ
Staff Writer
Hours after news broke on
Tuesday morning that USC men’s
basketball assistant coach Tony
Bland was arrested on charges
that included bribery and fraud,
the University’s athletic depart-ment
took swift strides that cul-minated
in the commencement
of its own internal investigation,
hiring former FBI director Louis
Freeh to handle the case.
Bland and nine others were
brought down by a sting operation
conducted by the FBI.
Freeh is an expert in compli-ance
investigations. He served
as FBI Director from 1993 to
2001, and before that he was an
Assistant U.S. Attorney.
Freeh has experience in NCAA
compliance. His firm, Freeh Group
USC hires
former
FBI
director
Louis Freeh will lead an
internal investigation of
the case involving Bland.
By JULIA POE
Sports Editor
USC placed men’s basketball
associate head coach Tony Bland
on administrative leave follow-ing
his arrest on Monday.
Bland was arrested along with
three fellow NCAA assistant
basketball coaches and six oth-ers
as part of a corruption ring,
according to federal papers that
became public Tuesday. The ring
allegedly involved bribes used to
connect top college basketball
players with financial advisers.
He was released after appear-ing
in court on a $100,000 bond.
He is scheduled to appear in the
U.S. District Court in New York
on Oct. 10.
Bland was put on administra-tive
leave on Tuesday after the
athletic department was “sur-prised
to learn” of both the in-vestigation
and the arrest. The
University has since hired for-mer
FBI director Louis Freeh to
spearhead an internal investiga-tion,
and reached out to both the
NCAA and the FBI to pledge the
school’s “full cooperation” in the
future.
“We were shocked to learn
this morning through news re-ports
about the FBI investiga-tion
and arrests related to NCAA
basketball programs, including
the arrest of USC assistant coach
Tony Bland,” USC athletic direc-tor
Lynn Swann said in a state-ment.
“USC Athletics maintains
the highest standards in athlet-ic
compliance across all of our
programs and does not tolerate
misconduct in any way. We will
cooperate fully with the inves-tigation
and will assist authori-ties
as needed, and if these alle-gations
are true, we will take the
needed action.”
The FBI also charged Lamont
Evans of Oklahoma State, Chuck
Person of Auburn and Emanuel
“Book” Richardson of Arizona.
Besides the four coaches in-volved,
the case charged finan-cial
advisers, sports agents and
Jim Gatto, the Adidas director of
Assistant coach charged in corruption ring
| see BLAND, page 9 | | see FREEH, page 11 |
Steven Kramer | Daily Trojan
Tony Bland was among four
NCAA basketball coaches
arrested in an FBI sting.
Katie Chin | Daily Trojan